In another kingdom, not far from Smok, lived another royal family. The royal family of Starlight. This family was a happy one, with two twin children of nine, Jeremiah and Brooke. The family was happy but one day, the queen was surprised the learn she was going to have a third baby! Her two small children were excited, but her husband...he was worried. She had started to grow ill since she discovered she was pregnant and seemed to get weaker as the weeks went on. Eventually...she went into labor a month too early. The doctors did everything they could...but in the end, only the baby was alive. The king and the two kids were heartbroken...they lost their mother, but they gained a brother. They named him after her father, they named Michael.
~Three Years Later~
Michael smiled as he jumped out of bed happily. It was finally the day! He was three years old! Brooke and Jeremy promised they would play with him today! He ran to his big window struggling to open the curtains when he heard a maid come in.
"Good Morning Young prince!" He smiled helping him open the window.
"Thank you Richie!" He smiled as rich nodded helping him pick an outfit for the day. "Richie do you know what today is!!!"
"I do! It's your birthday! Happy third birthday my prince!" He smiled as Michael hugged him. "Brooke and Jeremy should still be eating breakfast, you better get over there!" He smiled as Michael nodded excited running out of his room through the halls to the banquet room where he saw his brother and sister talking with their father. He waited by the table for them since they must be talking about the kingdom and things he didn't understand.
"Yes father, we will be there later today." Jeremy said to him as their father nodded leaving the room to attend to his own business. Brooke and Jeremy looked to one another and then back to the table as they walked over. Michael smiled running to them.
"Good morning Jeremy! Good morning Brookie!!" Michael smiled as Jeremy and Brooke gave a soft smile picking him up.
"Hey Mikey, just woke up?"
"Yep! Are you two gonna play with me today!" He smiled excited as the two exchanged nervous looks.
"Uh...we will try to Mikey, you know how hard it is..." he said nervously as Michael nodded excited. It wasn't a no!!
"Why don't you ask Christine for some breakfast? Me and Jeremy will be in our study when your done alright?" Brooke smiled as he nodded running to the kitchen. Brooke sighed looking to Jeremy. "Jere...I don't know if we will be able to play with him today...father expects us to be in the town center by three!" She whispered.
"I know but he's just so excited I didn't want to break his heart...maybe we can find time before we have to leave to play a quick game. Let's get to our study we need to finish everything for later." He said as they went to their study.
Once Michael finished his breakfast he ran to their study seeing Brooke. He ran over to her smiling.
"Brookie! Can we please play Hide and Seek! Plwaseeee!!!!" He said in his cute voice. Brooke smiled looking at the clock...they weren't leaving for a while still.
"Okay Mikey, we can play. You can hide and I'll seek, okay?" She smiled as he squealed nodding.
"Count to 100!" He smiled as she nodded closing her eyes as she could hear his tiny feet run out of the room. After she finished counting she started to look for him knowing he must be hiding in a place not too far away. She looked around the hallway when she heard her brother run to her.
"Brooke! We have an emergency!" He said worried. Brooke looked to him worried as he handed her a paper that had the event they were going to on it. "Dad got the times wrong! We have to leave now if we are to make it in time!" He said worried. "The carriage is outside let's go!" He said as she nodded running with him to make it on time, forgetting about the game she was playing with Michael.
Hours passed as Christine and Rich were cleaning up and doing the laundry for the staff when they heard a noise in the apron hamper. Christine looked in the hamper seeing the little prince snoring softly.
"What the- how did he get in there?!" She said worried as Rich picked him up making him stir in his arms. He rubbed his tiny eyes confused seeing the female and male figure.
"Brookie...Jeremy..." he yawned.
"No sweetheart, it's Christine and Richard...what were you doing in the hamper?" She asked him as he yawned.
"Me and Brookie were playing hide and seek..." he yawned. Christine and Rich looked to one another worried.
"Honey do you remember what time you started your game..." rich asked. Michael nodded his head. Showing ten fingers and then two...twelve o clock... rich and Christine looked to one another again with worry and fear.
"Sweetheart...it's 5 now..." Christine said as he looked to her worried. "They went to the village around twelve...I'm so sorry..." she said worried as Michael teared up...they forgot about him again... he sobbed running out of the room to his as Christine and Rich sighed. "I swear when they get back in an hour I'm going to strangle them!" Christine said as rich nodded.
"We need to make him feel better...can you bake a small cake?" He asked her as she nodded grabbing her apron and running to the kitchen as rich got a messenger to tell the prince and princess a very strongly worded letter about how dare they forget their brother on his own birthday and that they need to find a way to fix it. The messenger took their horse into town as Rich went to his room to make something for Michael he's been working on for the prince.
When Jeremy and Brooke received the letter they felt like they were being executed. They forgot about Michael, and on his birthday! They knew they had to leave but not before going to a small store Michael loved when he went there the one time to see if there was anything they could get him for his birthday. Once they returned to the castle they found Christine and rich who promptly slapped them.
"How could you forget. HES YOUR LITTLE BROTHER!" Christine screamed at them.
"I know! We messed up really bad! But we got him something that we think he might like...we need to talk to father about giving us more time in our schedules to take care of Michael more..." Brooke signed worried as Christine huffed before hugging her.
"Sorry I yelled but he's like my brother too I love him." She said. Brooke nodded as Rich shows them what he made. Christine went to get the small cake as they wrapped the small gifts they got for Michael before going by his room knocking softly before opening it seeing their young brother crying on his bed. Brooke and Jeremy felt even more guilty as they were pushed in they walked towards his bed sitting down.
"Mikey...were so sorry we forgot..." Jeremy said as Brooke rubbed Michael's back. He kept sobbing softly as Brooke lifted him up so he can see them better.
"We are the worst siblings ever, but we wanted to try and make it up to you so we got you something when we were in the village..." Brooke said as Jeremy and Brooke gave him a book. "It's a fairytale book, we can read it to you before you go to sleep." Brooke smiled. Michael sniffled hugging the book seeing rich come over with something in a bow.
"I've been working on this for you for a long time your highness..." he smiled giving Michael the tiny dragon doll he made with various old cloths he got over the last year. Michael gasped hugging it excited.
"Thank you Richie..." he said softly as they heard a cough from the door seeing one of their father's personal guards.
"It's dinner time your highnesses." He told them as Brooke picked up Michael bringing him to the dining room where they were surprised to see their father sitting at the table.
"Father...your here..." Jeremy said shocked as he nodded seeing Michael.
"I'm here because it's Michael's birthday, I was told something he wanted more then anything was a family dinner. So I was able to find time for it..." he said as Michael teared up running to their dad hugging him. His father barely remembered he existed sometimes. He smiled as he put him in his chair to eat dinner and then Christines cake.
After dinner and desert Brooke did what she told him, and started to read one of the stories in his new book, not long after, he feel asleep hugging the dragon, or so she thought. Brooke kissed his head leaving his room quietly as she was met with her brother and father.
"Father we cant do these long events for so long anymore, we are starting to neglect Michael..."
"I know. But I can't do them alone, but I'm working on something to help aid our kingdom. Tomorrow afternoon the King of Smok and his two sons will be coming here to discuss kingdom duties. Perhaps they can aid us so something like this never happens again..." he sighed as they walked away from his room. Michael looked to the dragon dolly...kingdom of Smok? Who were they?
AHHHH POOR MICHAEL! He's such a precious and sad bean but don't worry, I'm sure tomorrow he will feel much better...or maybe someone will help him feel better. Sadly though this isn't the first time his family neglected the poor little prince, he's too tiny to do much so they just keep him in the castle where he can't get hurt for now atleast.
Anyways, only one more part of the prologue before the next chapter comes out! This one was a lot longer mainly because of ideas that came when writing plus I wanted to have the scene where they try to make him feel better instead of ending it with them not remembering at all and only giving him the book when he's asleep (trust me that book is important for the next part.) hopefully I finish that part sooner then later :)
Until then please comment and like this story if you...well liked it :)
More to come as the story continues~
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